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BloodRayne (2006)

3.5 (10 Ratings) Rate It

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Gothic action adventure prequel to the popular video game. In medieval Romania, the evil Lord Kagan...

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Die, Monster, Die! (1965) in Movies

Jul 5, 2020

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

1965 | Horror, Sci-Fi

6.0

(3 Ratings)

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Rather annoyingly not-quite-there horror movie based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story ('based on' in the sense of 'almost entirely different from'). Guy goes to see his girl in the remote English countryside, discovers surly locals, finds her father has been up to experiments into Things Which Man Was Not Meant To Know. Includes the obligatory badly-done Lovecraftian squid-monsters.

Interesting cast, and you can tell Karloff in particular is doing his best with the material, but there's an awful lot of wandering about with not much happening, especially for a film only about an hour and a quarter long. Obviously done on the cheap, and too invested in its standard Gothic tropes - creepy old mansion, spooky domestics, cursed family heritage, etc - to make the most of the potential in the short story it's supposed to be based on. All in all, less interesting than it has any right to be in the circumstances.